“I want to tell you a funny memory of one of our circus tigers. It
was AXEL who was one of the first circus tigers that came to BCR. He
was pretty old and could not see or hear very well. When it was feeding
time, to get him to come over to lockout, you would have to hold a paper plate
up to the side of the cage, because he could kind of see that and stomp your
feet and call him. After a little while, he would start to amble over. There
was a small V shaped tree in the middle of his enclosure and on his way to
lockout, he would get stuck in the V, and then realize that it felt pretty
good to go back and forth stuck in the V. It could take you 20
minutes to feed Axel, but nobody minded. He was a sweet tiger and I miss him
a lot”…….Becky, Senior Volunteer Keeper